Legal Opinion

P. P. Williams Company v. Colorado Milling and Elevator Company

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided June 20, 1957No. 16491PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court, sitting without a jury, dismissing defendant-appellant’s counterclaim as not supportable by the evidence presented at the trial. The primary issue is whether the trial court erred in determining that the cancellation with little over a week’s notice of a long-standing, largely unwritten, exclusive distributorship agreement was, under all the circumstances, not improper and did not result in determinable and recoverable damages. The principal facts are mostly undisputed and are here for the most part taken from the…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Wood v. . Duff-GordonNew York Court of Appeals · 1917
  2. Duane Jones Co. v. BurkeNew York Court of Appeals · 1954
  3. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Claiborne-Reno Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1933
  4. Rape v. Mobile & O. R. R.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1924
  5. J. C. Millett Co. v. Park & Tilford Distillers Corp.District Court, N.D. California · 1954

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Robert Porter & Sons, Inc. v. National Distillers Products Company, a Division of National Distillers and Chemical CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1963
  2. Utility Appliance Corp. v. KuhnsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1958
  3. Griffin v. Board of Supervisors of Prince Edward CountyCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
  4. Smoky Mountains Beverage Co. v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc.District Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1960
  5. Bel-Mar Ford Tractor v. Woods & Copeland Manufacturing, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979

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